Christmas spirit can be defined in many different ways and mean many different things. For some people it can be giving to other or it can just spending time together with the people you love. Personally, I don’t really give for Christmas because I always felt like giving was only providing material happiness. Generally for Christmas I just spend time with the family and have fun, laugh and catchup on all the things that has happened over the year. Ebenezer Scrooge on the other hand, lack all of these traits therefore he is regarded as having no Christmas spirit. Scrooge said Christmas was a humbug, refusing to spend time with his family, not giving to anyone and keeping to himself on Christmas. To Scrooge, Christmas was just a waste of time as he makes his worker Bob Cratchit work for grueling hours at low pay, refuses his nephew Fred's Christmas dinner invitation, and turns away two charitable workers seeking donations for the poor. Within the book, Scrooge undergone a huge transformation from a mean old miser to the true meaning of Christmas spirit. He was only able to perform this transformation by seeing the 3 ghost of Christmas: The ghost of Christmas past, present, and Yet-To-Come. Scrooge spent his life focusing on his wealth along with his partner Marley. One night Marley’s ghost visits Scrooge trying to get Scrooge to change his fate because Marley ended up bound in the chains of his own greed. Later that night, Scrooge was first visited by the Ghost of Christmas Past and was show his childhood. He was first shown him in the school all alone while everyone else left with their families for Christmas. Then the Ghost of Christmas Past showed Scrooge how he still had some Christmas Spirit when he was younger but he ruined... ... middle of paper ... ...at asking for more was just based on greedy and selfishness. The main connection between me and Scrooge is that we learned something that made us appreciated what we already had. Scrooge spent years of his life all alone without the comfort of others but once he changed he saw all the people that were already there trying to connect with him. Along with me I never really recognized and appreciated everything I had till I realized that some people have nothing. So it can also be said that we both learned to be grateful for what we have as Scrooge had a nephew that cared enough to invite him to his party and a loyal worker that ended up treating him like family. I learned that being around the people you love is more than enough and even better than just a gift because a gift can provide happiness for a moment but your family will always be with you and support you.
Dickens displays guilt as the main form of how Scrooge’s character develops into a compassionate person by the end of the novella. As Scrooge feels this quilt, it's purely based on the visions that the ghosts provide which further causes Scrooge to realise the consequences of his actions. His alienation from specific characters that he used to love such as Belle, “...has displaced me…” whom left Scrooge, due to his desire for money and wealth which grew. This desire grows with him as he is rejecting the christmas joy and spirit as he continuously states that Christmas is a “humbug,” but by stating this it provides comparison. Dickens depicts that Scrooge has become a better person because of fear but in the end he has become kinder. As the
Scrooge was and owner of a factory and made a whole bunch of money, but he did not care about anyone else. “Merry Christmas said his nephew, what right do have to be merry you are poor enough”. This shows that scrooge is mean to family and does not care about Christmas.
Later on Christmas Eve, three spirits sent by Marley attempt to change Scrooge’s ways. The first ghost, the Ghost of Christmas Past, shows him how miserable he was as a child and how he became a grumpy old man. The reason he is the way his is today is his lost love left him for him loving money more than lovingnher. “Another Idol has displaced me. A golden one,” (689) she says...
A Christmas Carol is a classic novel with lessons that is universally recognized. Scrooge is a cold-hearted, bitter, and greedy man who detests Christmas. Joy is his enemy and he believes it to be unnecessary. Scrooge realizes a great deal about himself and those around him because of the spirits of Christmas Present, Past, and Future visits. Through those visits, he undergoes a transformation that effects the rest of his life. Ebenezer Scrooge sees firsthand how temptation can corrupt and how redemption can save.
In the play, Mr. Scrooge is a greedy man who thinks Christmas is “Bah Humbug!” (Dickens 3). His family has always wanted him to join them for a Christmas feast, but Mr. Scrooge has never wanted anything to do with Christmas. Marley, Mr. Scrooge’s old business partner, didn’t want Mr. Scrooge to end up like him with chains of greed attached to him when he died, so he sent Mr. Scrooge three spirits: Christmas Past, Present, and Future.
On page 64, we see how Scrooge shows sympathy in the quote, “There was a boy singing a Christmas carol at my door last night. I should like to have given him something. That 's All.” After being shown a memory of himself as a boy, Scrooge regrets being harsh to the boy caroling and not giving him any money. Seeing his own sadness as a child made him realize it would have been nice to give the boy something to make him happy. He will probably do nicer things in the future because he now realizes that the boy would have been upset because of how Scrooge turned him away so harshly. He is changing his actions, and regretting bad actions in the past. He wants to fix what he did wrong, and he feels sympathy for the boy. People want to be shown compassion, so in the future if he helps people out and is kind, he will not be as isolated. Another quote to show how he becomes less detached from humanity is on pages 92-93, ‘”Spirit,” said Scrooge, “Tell me if Tiny Tim will live.” Scrooge feels sorry for Bob Cratchit because the spirit says if the future remains unaltered he will die. He feels upset that Tiny Tim will die, and sympathy for Bob because his son will probably die. He probably regrets not giving Bob more time with his son. He had made a comment earlier that if someone will die they better go and die to decrease the population, when the donation collector
The novel is incredibly carefully structured into five staves and the last stave and the first stave being total opposites of each other, while in between the middle staves, consist of three ghosts; ghost of Christmas past, Christmas present and future. These ghosts try to transform Scrooge completely from being a horrible and mean old man into a loving and caring person for his benefit as well as everyone else’s.
Scrooge changes in many ways from the beginning of “A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley” by Israel Horovitz to the end. Two of Scrooge’s many alterations in his lifestyle were becoming more sympathetic and turning into a generous man. There was a lot of ground between him at the start of the book to the finish but he most certainly changed for the better.
At the end of the christmas past visit, Scrooge tearfully tells the ghost that he wished he had given the boy singing a carol at his door the night before something. We see in this remorseful feeling he experiences, that he is becoming more
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The drama took place in December near Christmas time. There is a man named Mr.Scrooge and he does not like Christmas. He thinks it’s a waste of time and that it is a humbug(Dickson3). This causes to be visited by his old dead partner’s ghost Jacob Marley. Jacob comes to warn Scrooge about three ghost hat are going to come from the past,present, and the future. The ghosts visit Scrooge and make him see the past,present,and the future(Dickens,7-12. The ghost can't seem to convince Scrooge to be a good person anymore, until the final ghost shows up. The last ghost shows Scrooge on what lies upon his future. The
The story of A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens, is one that mostly everyone is familiar with. It airs during the holidays in an enormous amount of variations. The basis of each variation is the same. Ebenezer Scrooge, our main character, is a cold hearted man. It is Christmas Eve, and as Scrooge is closing his office his nephew comes in to wish him a Merry Christmas. Scrooge, being as “cold” as he is, just thinks that Christmas is a time where people spend money. Scrooge lives alone. His business partner, Jacob Marley has been dead for seven years. Scrooge prepares for bed and all of the unused bells in his house start to ring. The ghost of his deceased coworker, dressed in chains, cash boxes, keys, etc., shows up in Scrooge’s room. He sits down and tells Scrooge how during his lifetime he never did anything good for anyone else. So now in his death, he has to constantly travel with no sleep and no relief from the horror of the guilt that he is feeling. Marley says that Scrooge has a chance to turn his life around and that he will be visited by three spirits who will show him how to do so. They will all appear within a stroke of each other, and Marley is gone. Each ghost represents a different point in Scrooge’s life; the Ghost of Christmas Past, the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. After the events that have occurred that night, Scrooge comes to the realization that he can change. Ebenezer Scrooge has a change of heart for the holiday, Christmas, and he never goes back to his old ways. (Goldstein 1).
In the book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.The main character Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean,ignorant and lonely old man who hates Christmas, and thinks it is stupid and there is no point in celebrating it.Throughout the book Scrooge is visited by four spirits.The spirits are Jacob Marley his dead co-worker,the spirit of christmas past,the spirit of christmas present and the spirit of future christmas who change his outlook on Christmas,In the middle of the book Scrooge begins to transition into a kind and empathetic person person,because of these spirits who visit him.At the end of the book he is a happy and generous person.
After the ghost takes Scrooge to see Belle with her husband and children, Scrooge then says, "Leave me! Take me back! Haunt me no longer!" I think Scrooge reacted quite strongly to the visions shown by this Ghost of Christmas Past, and that the emotion and agony he demonstrates with the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come is the culmination of all the horrors he has been shown that
In "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, Ebenezer Scrooge undergoes a transformation as a result of his encounters with three ghosts and becomes a kind, happy, and generous man. His greedy, cruel, and grumpy demeanor is replaced seemingly overnight, but he doesn’t just wake up and decide to be nice. It takes three Spirits to change his outlook on life - The Ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Future. The Ghost of Christmas Past makes Scrooge begin to regret his selfishness, and the Ghost of Christmas Present begins to teach him about others. This second Ghost helps to make him realize that money doesn't buy happiness. The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come, however, teaches the most profound lesson of all: unless he changes, no one will care if Scrooge dies. Because of the Ghosts, by Christmas morning Ebenezer Scrooge is a completely different person from the man who went to bed on Christmas Eve.